· 10/24/1990
Arlene Flax, Etc. v. W.S. Potts, Fort Worth Independent School District, a Corporation
Citations
- 915 F.2d 155
- 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 18531
- 1990 WL 149215
How courts have described this case
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- finding that fourteen schools that were over 80% black did not preclude declaration of unitary status in large urban district with 98 total schools, where it was “essentially un-controverted” that the district had succeeded in “removing the vestiges of the dual system”
- “A district court in this circuit does not dismiss a school desegregation case until at least three years after it has declared the system unitary.”
- “[t]o continue supervision once [constitutional] wrong is righted.. .effectively changes the constitutional measure of the wrong itself; it transposes the dictates of the remedy for the dictates of the Constitution.”
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Judges: Reavley, Duhé, Wiener
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